New Salmon Poetry Books

Jessie Lendennie / Even the Daybreak: 35 Years of Salmon Poetry (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Salmon Poetry's celebratory anthology, highlighting its list of Irish, American, British and European poets, all of whom represent the vibrancy of contemporary literature - distinct in style, voice, and geography. "Salmon's unique profile grows from the...

Ben Howard / Firewood and Ashes: New and Selected Poems (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Encompassing forms as diverse as the free-verse lyric, the sonnet sequence, the verse letter, and the meditative monologue, this selection from Ben Howard’s six previous books demonstrates the breadth of his cultural awareness and the depth of his...

Gusztáv Báger / Object Found (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

  Hungarian Guszt v B ger is a rare combination of poet and economist. His striking and highly effective poems unite realism and surrealism with concern and pity for human beings. Although B ger is no tourist he is a frequent visitor in the capitals...

William Wall / Ghost Estate (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Seven years in the making, the themes of this book - politics, desire, terror, love, loss, and flight - have powerful resonance today, after Ireland's disastrous economic crash. It takes its title from the vast developments of surplus houses all over...

Julian Gough / Free Sex Chocolate (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Free Sex Chocolate is a witty, irreverent, provocative, and highly original collection of poems and songs written by Julian Gough from the 1980s to the present. An acclaimed novelist, this is his first collection of poetry. He also wrote the first short...

Edward Denniston / For Crying Out Loud (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

About this BookA revered voice of the South East for many years, Edward Denniston sings forth anew with visionary power and profound honesty. Here in For Crying Out Loud he gives us the youthful taking off of clothes, a sheltering from rain beneath...

David McLoghlin / Waiting for Saint Brendan and Other Poems (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

As an avid reader of Irish literature, I found David McLoghlin’s work… to be fresh and unexpected, yet still worthy of inclusion in the great canon of poetry that is produced by his nation.”Mark Shaw, Natural Bridge“Its own...

A Taste for Hemlock / Michele Vassal (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

A Taste for Hemlock is a mystical journey of transmutation birthed in the crucible of cultural dichotomy. Grounded in myths and storytelling, Michele Vassal's vision is uncompromising, incisive, and laden with a rich painterly sensuality. In this book,...

Alvy Carragher / Falling in Love With Broken Things (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Alvy Carragher is a Pushcart nominee and a two-time All-Ireland Slam Poetry Finalist. She has performed at many festivals throughout Ireland and abroad. She is also an award-winning blogger, and her blog With All the Finesse of a Badger has been archived...

Louise C. Callaghan / The Puzzle-Heart (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

The poems in this first collection range from poignant accounts of adult children leaving home, of a granddaughter and those heart searing poems which map the geography of love-loneliness, desire, and loss. These poems resonate with passion and sorrow...

Stephen Murray / On Corkscrew Hill (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

This book chronicles a journey through the contemporary landscape of a nation on its knees. As the dust settles on a country trying to pick itself up from the precipice of economic annihilation, this collection examines the emotional and human cost that...

Mary Coll / All Things Considered (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

All Things Considered' is a collection of poems which explores relationships, what can be resolved and what can hardly be understood. It is a journey through the various ties that bind, which turns each one over like a series of photographs to form a...

Patrick Chapman / A Promiscuity of Spines: New and Selected Poems (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Patrick Chapman has one of the most distinctive and creative voices in poetry today. From his exciting debut, Jazztown, to the Pushcart-Prize nominated title poem of The Darwin Vampires , his work has followed its own imaginative path. Heartfelt yet...

Robert Fanning / Severance (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

  In his fourth full-length collection, Robert Fanning takes a dramatic leap into a liminal world. In poems both measured and free, both cadenced and incantatory, we follow two marionettes—Professor and Grief—who search for a life...

Patrick Chapman / The New Pornography (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Eavan Boland, writing in Poetry Ireland Review, praised Patrick Chapman's "real gifts for rhythmic shock treatment and off-beat diction," describing him as "one of the very compelling voices" of the new generation of Irish poets. This equally sharp and...

Sheila O'Hagan / Along The Liffey: Poems and Short Stories (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

O'Hagan began writing poetry in 1984 while studying at Birkbeck College, London University. In 1988 she won the Goldsmith Award for Poetry, and in 1990 returned to live in Dublin where she still resides. Since then she has three times been awarded prizes...

Eva Bourke / Watching My Hands at Work: A Festschift for Adrian Frazier (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

This Festschrift consists of poems, short stories, essays, and extracts from novels and plays honoring the invaluable contribution Adrian Frazier has made to education and the arts at NUI Galway and further afield in the literary community of Ireland as...

Seamus Cashman / The Sistine Gaze: I too begin with scaffolding (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

The Sistine Gaze engages imaginatively and intellectually with Michelangelo’s frescoes and this demands scale and execution of a high order; it requires a more than usual organisation of sources, religious, philosophical, biblical, mythological,...

Rory Brennan / The Old in Rapallo (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Rory Brennan grew up in Dublin and took a degree in literature from Trinity College. He has worked in education, broadcasting and arts administration and has lived for extended periods in Morocco and Greece. Travel in these and many other places is...

Elvis Alves / Blackfish (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

In Blackfish, Elvis Alves locates beauty in the horrid and strange that constitute familial and social history. In this way, the poems grasp after the meaning of life in an attempt to ensure survival in the midst of all that it offers. Some of the poems...

Patricia Brody / My Blazing World (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

This is the third collection from New York City poet and two-time Pushcart nominee, Patricia Brody.     These Salmon Poetry books have come into us unused and unopened but due to the storage in their last location they might have some scuffs or...

John Corless / Are You Ready? (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Corless lives and writes in County Mayo, Ireland. His poetry is a mix of political, satirical, and rural and has been described as `Paul Durcan meets The Sawdoctors.' He writes poetry, fiction, and drama; his work has been published in magazines and...

Edward Denniston / The Scale of Things (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Many of the poems in The Scale of Things were inspired by childhood experiences, and the book is dedicated to the author's mother who passed away in 2011.     These Salmon Poetry books have come into us unused and unopened but due to the...

J.P. Dancing Bear / Conflicted Light (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Dancing Bear's poems have been published in Shenandoah, Poetry International, New Orleans Review, National Poetry Review, Marlboro Review, Mississippi Review, Atlanta Review and many others. He is the editor of the American Poetry Journal and the host of...

Mary O'Malley / The Knife in the Wave (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Mary O'Malley moves from the clear topography of her last collection, Where the Rocks Float, to probe the underwater world prefigured in her long poem sequence 'The Cave' from that collection. She does this by a process of inversion as 'The Seal Woman'...

Nadya Aisenberg / Measures (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

      These Salmon Poetry books have come into us unused and unopened but due to the storage in their last location they might have some scuffs or marks on the edges of the pages

Matt W. Miller / The Wounded For the Water (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Miller explores the littoral zone; between the firmament of experience and understanding, between first breath and death, where strict definitions of gender, fatherhood, and masculinity swirl in the pull of tides and the curl and crush of waves. In these...

Mark Granier / Airborne (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

This is Irishman Mark Granier's first book; he had a runner-up placement in the 1995 Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Competition.     These Salmon Poetry books have come into us unused and unopened but due to the storage in their last location they...

Lori Desrosiers / The Philosopher's Daughter (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Lori Desrosiers' father, a Professor of Philosophy and a Psychiatrist, died young (when Lori was 28) of brain cancer. His life and death are the inspiration for these poems that read like skillfully drawn postcards. The poet's family and thoughts arrive,...

A.E. Stringer / Late Breaking (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

The poems of Late Breaking cross the shoals of later life on earth by contemplating animal encounters, by gathering the riches of art against loss, and by singing the sometimes questionable blessings of mortality. The right lyrics are magical...

Mark Granier / Ghostlight: New & Selected Poems (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

The fifth collection of poetry from Irish poet Mark Granier. Granier's awards include the New Writer Poetry Prize, the Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize and a Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship.     These Salmon Poetry books have come into us...

Noel Hanlon / Blue Abundance (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Noel Hanlon was born in Portland, Oregon in 1956. She lives on a 30-acre Oregon farm, where she and her husband raise sheep, chickens, and every variety of plant and vegetable possible in the Oregon climate. Her poems have been published in the US and...

Raina J. León / Boogeyman Dawn (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

In Boogeyman Dawn, Raina Leon explores the space between some of our worst nightmares and the awakening of hope. Leon does not look away from even the rawest of wounds in the psyche, the flesh, and the social body, but it is through carefully wrought...

Mary O'Donnell / Massacre of the Birds (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

The range of poems in Massacre of the Birds moves from an encounter with water creatures in ‘Hanging House in a Canal’ to the appearance of a satyr in O’Donnell’s back garden in ‘Muse.’ Mythic nature abounds, but...

Edward O'Dwyer / Exquisite Prisons (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Edward O’Dwyer’s poems in Exquisite Prisons pack the quotidian with a creeping terror; motorists nervously migrate to investigate the car stalled at the lights, a father is filmed throwing his child higher and higher, a husband wonders if his...

Jude Nutter / Dead Reckoning (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

  Dead reckoning—used by navigators to calculate their position using a record of speed, drift, and the direction travelled relative to a last known location—is the metaphor at the heart of Jude Nutter’s fourth collection, where...

Padraig O'Morain / The Blue Guitar (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

In these dynamic, musically-arcing poems Padraig O'Morain weaves subtle, captivating narratives with the skill and relish of a natural story-teller. The poems in The Blue Guitar conjure at once the pathos of the individual human situation and the echoes...

Terence Winch / Lit From Below (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

This collection contains poems of ten lines, a convention the author likens to playing. The poems, which started out experimenting with referentiality and linearity, became somewhat less unconventional over the course of time.     These Salmon...

Fióna Bolger / Love in the Original Language (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Crossing borders of meaning, territory and flesh itself, Fióna Bolger’s new poems explore the limits and possibilities of language. Survival can depend on nuance, insider slang, an accurate translation, or knowing when to stay silent. Fired...

John Mackenna / Where Sadness Begins (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

John MacKenna's collection explores the general and the personal, ranging geographically and emotionally from the boglands of his native Kildare to Northamptonshire. The poems explore loss, failure, and doubt in a strikingly honest exploration of his...

Gerald Dawe / Catching the Light: View & Interviews (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

  This fascinating series of literary views and interviews illuminate the coming of age of Belfast-born poet Gerald Dawe during the fifties and sixties in Northern Ireland, the literary and political worlds he discovered on moving to the Republic of...

Mary O'Malley / Asylum Road (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

      These Salmon Poetry books have come into us unused and unopened but due to the storage in their last location they might have some scuffs or marks on the edges of the pages

Peter Van De Kamp / Notes (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

This is Peter van de Kamp's first poetry collection. The poems are short, dramatic, imagistic, capturing fleeting emotions and feelings, like brief musical chords-nocturnes and variations.     These Salmon Poetry books have come into us unused...

Peter Van De Kamp / In Train (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Peter van de Kamp was born in The Hague, The Netherlands in 1956. He taught English and Anglo-Irish Literature, Rhetoric and Stylistics at the University of Leiden and University College, Dublin, where he was a Newman Scholar. He now teaches at the...

Mary O'Donnell / To The Winds Our Sails: Irish Writers Translate Galician Poets (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

This anthology offers five translations from ten Galician women poets, ranging in age, experience and style. It offers a unique insight into the imaginative, social, and personal preoccupations with which the Galician poets have engaged in the late 20th...

Laurence McKeown / Threads (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

  Laurence McKeown almost died in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh/Maze Prison in the North of Ireland following 70 days on hunger strike in 1981. In later years, he helped facilitate poetry workshops in the prison and co-founded a prisoners' magazine. In...

Jeffrey Levine / At the Kinnegad Home for the Bewildered (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Two hundred years ago, the great rabbi, Simcha Bunim, offered a teaching. Each of us has two pockets. In one, a note reads, "For my sake was the world created"; in the other, "All I am is dust and ash." Take stock of your needs, the rabbi counseled, and...

Mary Dorcey / Moving into the Space Cleared by our Mothers (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

  These poems are the work of a canny and dextrous stylist. Nearly every poem records an important human fact that has hitherto gone unspoken; nearly every poem both marks a past silence and opens a new possibility. This is a truly profound book, a...

Gabriel Fitzmaurice / Will You Be My Friend?: New & Selected Poems for the Young and Young at Heart (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Brings together over 100 of Fitzmaurice's best-loved poems chosen from his collections for children, together with more than thirty new poems, including a selection of his poems in Irish. Enjoyed by both the young and the young at heart, the poems range...

Gordon Walmsley / Touchstones (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

A touchstone is a stone used to gain insight into the qualities of a sample of gold. Gordon Walmsley develops this theme of insight, into a many-faceted adumbration of poems. He raises the how can we fathom the cold mechanism of an increasingly...

Gabriel Fitzmaurice / Kerry On My Mind: Of Poets, Pedagogues, and Place--Selected Prose (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

  A poet and primary school teacher, Fitzmaurice explores the role of the poet and teacher within a community. Noting the importance of the poet in Irish society since ancient times.--Library Journal   These Salmon Poetry books have come into...

Allan Peterson / As Much As (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Allan Peterson is an American poet and visual artist whose writing has appeared in print and online literary journals for over twenty years. His prize-winning collections, All the Lavish in Common (2005 Juniper Prize, University of Massachusetts), and...